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17-18 March


Towards an integrated, accessible and trusted mental health system.

Melbourne 17th - 18th March

Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, Victoria

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The broad scope of the conference program is intended to bring people together from across the mental health and related sectors, including people with lived experience, service providers, policy-makers, and academics, to engage, discuss and debate the reform processes that will dominate mental health and suicide prevention for the coming decade.

Keynote presentations will look across the lifespan to present key opportunities, ideas and challenges for broad system reform. We are delighted to welcome our international speakers, Dr Roberto Mezzina, fChair, International Mental Health Collaborating Network and Professor Rory O’Connor, Director of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as a range of eminent local and national speakers.

Two panel discussions will frame the Conference, providing further insights into the requirements for system reform. A lived experience panel will open the Conference, considering how the system needs to change in order to better serve people living with mental health issues. A service provider panel will then close the Conference with a discussion of avenues for change within and across key service sectors.

Three streams will explore mental health at individual life stages (early years to youth, adulthood and later life) with a fourth stream devoted to suicide prevention. Each stream will be facilitated by a content expert with Consumers and carers introducing and closing each stream with their thoughts and reflections. Individual presentations will provide examples of innovative service models and approaches to practice, prominent research studies, and ways of responding to system and workforce needs.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Victorian Government, as Major Sponsor for this Conference and the other organisations and businesses that have also made this event possible.

Angus Clelland, CEO Mental Health Victoria.

2020 marks the start of an incredible reform journey for mental health and suicide prevention with the convergence of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health, Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and a host of other national inquiries and developments.

Mental Health Victoria received excellent support from well-known organisations for its events and conferences. We thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their support of this important event.

Mental Health across the Lifespan 2020 Conference: Towards an integrated, accessible & trusted mental health system.

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Acknowledgment of country

We acknowledge that the Mental Health across the Lifespan 2020 Conference is taking place on the lands of the Kulin

nation. We pay our respects to the custodians of this land, and their

Elders past, present and emerging.

Key Conference InformationConference Registration DeskAll enquiries should be directed to the Registration Desk.The Conference Registration Desk will be open throughout the Conference at the following times:Tuesday 17th March 8am–4pmWednesday 18th March 8am–4pm

PresentersPresenters for the concurrent sessions are asked to convene at the front of their assigned room with the Session Facilitator 10 minutes before the session commences.

Name Badges / TicketsAdmission to all sessions is by the official Conference name badge – for security purposes, please wear it at all times when in the Conference venue. If you misplace your name badge, please advise staff at the Conference Registration Desk. Delegates unable to attend over two days and wish to share their registration are asked to pass on their lanyard and name badge to their colleague, and when attending present this at the Conference Registration Desk.

Mobile PhonesAs a courtesy to all delegates and presenters, please ensure your mobile is turned to silent or off during all Conference sessions. Should you need to take a call, please leave the room quietly.

Networking EventPlease join us in the Lobby for the networking event on Tuesday evening, 17 March 2020 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. This is not a ticketed event and all delegates are welcome.

Conference App Details on how to download and use the Conference app can be found on the last page of this booklet.

Media & PressAll press or media must register prior to the Conference.

Your WellbeingYour wellbeing is important to us. If you are feeling unwell, please visit the Quiet Room, hosted by Neami National, or contact a member of the Mental Health Victoria or venue staff.

Physical Safety In order to provide a safe environment for all Conference delegates, room capacity will be monitored and ushers will assist with seating during all sessions. The venue requires that chairs and tables are not moved from room to room.

AccessibilityThe Pullman Melbourne Albert Park is a fully accessible venue. Please refer to the map for accessible bathroom facilities, or see staff at the Conference Registration Desk for additional options. To enable safe movement within the venue, please do not sit on the floor.

Dietary RequirementsVegetarian options will be provided throughout the Conference.Special Diets: For those who detailed in their initial registration of a special dietary request, a special meal option will be made available labelled with your name only where needs cannot be accommodated in the menu provided.

Emergency Evacuation ProceduresIn the event of an emergency, the venue staff will direct delegates accordingly.

Photography & VideographyThe Conference has an official photographer and videographer. Photos and video footage may be distributed or published at the discretion of Mental Health Victoria. Please notify us at the Conference Registration Desk if you don’t not wish to be photographed or recorded.

Social MediaDelegates are asked to limit the content of tweets/posts to discussion about the topics and issues raised during the Conference presentations, and for photos to include content that does not include results. Presenters may request that their presentation is not published on social media. Delegates are asked to please refrain from tweeting, posting or otherwise publishing work upon the request of the presenter. Please remember to practice respectful, moral and ethical behaviour in constructing and publishing tweets/posts.

TWITTER

Share your experience of the Conference by using #MHacrossthelifespan2020 or tweeting to our account: @MentalHealthVic

FACEBOOK

Visit our Facebook page for posts and information about the Conference and more:@mentalhealthvic

Exhibitor StallsPlease visit the Exhibitor stalls to find out what’s happening in the sector and for lots of information and resources. A range of exhibitors will be present throughout the Conference and all exhibitors for both days are listed on the preceding page as well as in the Conference App.

Internet AccessComplimentary internet

access is available. Information about how to join the network will be posted throughout the

Conference venue.

Network Name: Pullman Conference Wireless

WiFi Password: MH2020

• Eradicate punitive practices

• Consider safety of family and friends

• Services as safe havens for healing

• Safe spaces for family and friends

• Expand ‘safe wards’ principle across the system and to include family & friends.

Services are physically, culturally,

sexually and emotionally safe

family and friends are embedded

across the system

everyone has the right to access

services free from discrimination

and stigma

Everyone has the right to access services regardless of:

• Postcode• Gender• Sexuality• Cultural background• Economic status• Disability• Drug & alcohol.

Research shows that family inclusive practice models can:

• Reduce relapse• Reduce hospital admissions• Improve family functioning• Reduce stress• Reduce trauma experience• Increase employment• Increase social functioning• Improve cost effectiveness.

• Adequate resourcing to enable therapeutic care• Time to sit with Consumers & family in distress• Funding services to support family

in their own right• Increase financial assistance to family

and friends in mental health• Boost funding through Carer Support Fund• Expand Family Carer Mental Health Workforce• Improve cost effectiveness.

Tandem acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional owners of the lands and waters of Australia.

www.tandemcarers.org.au

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Calls for a safe, inclusive, fair and funded mental health system

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Day One Tuesday 17 March 2020

8:00-9:00am Registrations open9:00-9:05am Official Welcome – Sophie Scott, ABC Medial Reporter9:05-9:10am Welcome to Country 9:10-9:30am Opening Address – The Hon. Martin Foley MP, Victorian Minister for Mental Health 9:30-10:15am Lived Experience Panel – Janne McMahon OAM, Lived Experience Australia (Consumer)

Ingrid Ozols AM, mh@work (Consumer) Marie Piu MAPS, Tandem Inc. (Carer) Maggie Toko, Deputy Commissioner, Mental Health Complaints Commission (Consumer)

5:30-6:30pm Networking drinks

Holistic supports

“Choice and control in public policy: opportunities and pitfalls” Dr Sarah Pollock, Mind Australia “Public hospital–community health partnerships in action” Paul Smart, St Kilda Road Clinic Paul Vanderputt, Star Health

“Community organisations in the new mental health sandpit: How do we play and who do we play with?” Tom Dalton, Neami National

“Our workforce is in crisis: Could Virtual Reality be the answer?” John Katsourakis and Ellen Maple, ERMHA / Dr Melissa Petrakis, Monash University

3:50-5:30pm Family-centred approaches

3:50-4:15pm “Taking it all in: A statewide approach to addressing what is helpful for the whole family where a parent has mental health challenges” Rose Cuff, The Bouverie Centre. Sian Pietsch, parent / Consumer

4:15-4:40pm “Tackling the impacts of family adversity on child mental health: An integrated, sustainable approach” Professor Harriet Hiscock, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

4:40-5:05pm “Innovative mental health treatment for youth” Dr Paul Denborough, Alfred Health Deborah Warner, Alfred Health

5:05-5:30pm “It takes a village: Queerspace’s work with parents of trans and gender diverse, and gender questioning, children and young people” Dr Kate Foord, drummond street services

10:15-11:00am International Keynote Address – “An open-door, no-restraint system of mental healthcare: The experience in Trieste, Italy” Dr Roberto Mezzina, Chair, International Mental Health Collaborating Network, Director, International School Franca and Franco Basaglia “The Practice of Freedom”, Trieste and Vice President, European Region World Federation for Mental Health

11:00-11:30am Morning Tea & Exhibition 11:30-12:00pm Keynote Address – “Consumers, carers, clinicians & communities connecting to create the vision 2030”

Lucy Brogden AM, Chair, National Mental Health Commission12:00-12:30pm Keynote Address – “Why mental health services should go across the lifespan”

Professor Christel Middeldorp, Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland 12:30-1:30pm Lunch & Exhibition

1:30-3:30pm Consumer & community control

1:30-1:50pm “Perspectives from lived experience” Ian Higgins, Consumer

1:50-2:15pm “‘Ageing well’ is for everyone” Gerard Mansour, Commissioner for Senior

Victorians

2:15-2:40pm “Advance care planning” Colleen Pearce, Victorian Public Advocate

2:40-3:05pm “Older person mental health first aid” Professor Anthony Jorm, Mental Health First Aid.

Betty Kitchener, Kitchener Consulting

3:05-3:30pm “PTSD among veterans in later life transitions: A framework for engagement and empowerment” Nathan Klinge, RSL Care SA

Community supports

“Perspectives from lived experience” Matthew Caruana, Consumer

“Be brave, be strong and innovate: Embracing the challenges of greater community involvement and peer support for mental wellbeing and suicide prevention” Georgie Harman, Beyond Blue

“Preventing male suicide in rural farming communities: Understanding risk, enhancing resources and developing responses across the lifespan” Dr Alison Kennedy, Deakin University, National Centre for Farmer Health

“Building community: peer-to-peer support across the lifespan” David Butt, GROW Australia

“A psychologist’s reflections on reforming our mental health system to keep kids safe from suicide” Dr Lyn O’Grady, community psychologist

Life events & transitions

“Preventing suicide in boys and men” Professor Jane Pirkis, University of Melbourne “The interplay between concepts of masculinity, age-related life transitions and the circumstances in men’s life that may trigger suicidal intent” Dr Zac Seidler, Movember “Preventing suicides in older adults: What are we worried about?” Dr Annette Erlangsen, Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention / Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University“Suicide prevention strategies: The contribution of psychiatry” Associate Professor John Allan, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

3:50-5:30pm Whole-of-population needs

3:50-4:15pm “A decade of improving mental healthcare with older people in NSW” Dr Roderick McKay, Older People’s Mental Health Policy Unit, Mental Health Branch, NSW Health

4:15-4:40pm “Pathfinders’: Peer support in later life & the development & implementation of a peer support model for an older people’s mental health service” Patrick Livermore, Older People’s Mental Health Service, Central Coast Local Health District / Zona Gabriel, Central Coast Primary Care

4:40-5:05pm “Better mental health for older Australians: The workforce challenges ahead” Chris Gibbs, Mental Health Professionals’ Network

5:05-5:30pm “Integrating mental health into nursing culture

and practice: A solution for the future” Kim Ryan, Kim Ryan Consulting

Afternoon Session Stream 1 & 2

Morning Session


3:30-3:50pm Afternoon Tea & Exhibition 3:30-3:50pm Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

1:30-3:30pm Focussing on consumers & carers

1:30-1:50pm “Perspectives from lived experience” Inez Winters, Consumer

1:50-2:15pm “Driving Consumer-centred responses to perinatal mental health across Australia” Julie Borninkhof, Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia

2:15-2:40pm “Decoding the buzzword: The objectives, considerations and challenges of genuine lived-experience and youth participation” Melissa Keller-Tuberg, youth consultant & advocate Craig Wallace, Centre for Mental Health Learning

2:40-3:05pm “Young carers and family-inclusive care” Rachael Lovelock, Wellways

3:05-3:30pm “Migrant and refugee young people and

mental health: What do we actually know?” Carmel Guerra & Swathi Shanmukhasundaram, Centre for Multicultural Youth

Integrating care

“Perspectives from lived experience” Cr Carol Ryan, Carer

“Lessons learned from evaluating the Floresco integrated mental health service model” Dr Diana Beere, independent evaluation consultant / Ellen Heathwood, Aftercare Inc.

“Achieving incremental, whole-of-life improvements: multi-disciplinary, single-site care of people with complex and chronic mental health needs” Patrick Lawrence, First Step / Dr Jesse Young, School of Population & Global Health, University of Melbourne

“It all matters: Connecting a mental health, homelessness and family violence approach for women” Jocelyn Bignold, McAuley Community Services for Women / Rosie Bridge, Deloitte Access Economics

“Lack of integration or lack of care? New evidence on the housing and mental health trajectories of people with lived experience of mental ill health” Dr Nicola Brackertz, Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute

Stream 1: Early Years to Youth Stream 2: Adulthood Stream 3: Later Life Stream 4: Suicide Prevention

Day Two Wednesday 18 March 2020

8:00-9:00am Registrations open9:00-9:05am Official Welcome – Sophie Scott, ABC Medial Reporter9:05-9:25am Opening Address – Pam Anders, Mental Health Reform Victoria

9:25-10:10am International Keynote Address – “Suicide and suicide prevention: An international perspective” Professor Rory O’Connor, Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory and Chair, Health Psychology, Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland 10:10-10:40am Keynote Address – “A window into people’s experiences of the mental health system: What do complaints tell us?” Dr Lynne Coulson Barr, Mental Health Complaints Commissioner 10:40-11:00am Morning Tea & Exhibition


Conference Keynote Addresses & Closing


3:00-3:15pm Afternoon Tea 3:00-3:15pm Afternoon Tea

11:00-12:40pm Best-practice care

11:00-11:25pm “Innovative and sustainable solutions for implementing best practice in perinatal mental health across Australia” Dr Nicole Highet, COPE: Centre of Perinatal Excellence

11:25-11:50pm “Translating perinatal mental health research to practice” Professor Jeannette Milgrom and Dr Alan Gemmill, Parent–Infant Research Institute, Austin Health and the University of Melbourne

11:50-12:15pm “The Forensic Youth Mental Health Service at Orygen: An innovative new service for young people with mental health and forensic needs” Dr Emma Burke, Orygen

12:15-12:40pm “Connecting the dots: Overcoming barriers to siloed care” Professor Dan Lubman, Turning Point

Whole-of-person supports

“A state-wide evaluation of Prevention and Recovery Care Services across Victoria” Professor Lisa Brophy and Justine Fletcher, Centre for Mental Health, University of Melbourne

“Balit Djerring: A new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing outreach program” Tamara-Jane Lovett, Victorian Aboriginal Health Service

“Queering the system: How to create an LGBTI affirmative mental health service” Venetia Brissenden, Thorne Harbour Health

“Smoking, cessation and social justice” Dr Sarah White, Quit Victoria

System interfaces

“Actions to improve the responsiveness of the NDIA for people with psychosocial disability” Dr Gerry Naughtin, National Disability Insurance Agency

“Policy and program development, and implementation at a systems interface” Matthew Hercus, The Department of Health and Human Services

“Nowhere to go… Mental health presentations to emergency departments” Dr Simon Judkins, Australasian College of Emergency Medicine

“We need to do better – but how?” Sophie Scott, ABC / Cr Carol Ryan, Carer

1:20-3:00pm Prevention & early intervention

1:20-1:45pm “Towards an integrated approach to the prevention of mental health conditions” Dr Stephen Carbone, Prevention United

1:45-2:10pm “Factors that impact young people’s mental

wellbeing” Irene Verins, VicHealth

2:10-2:35pm “Residential early parenting programs: An

effective early intervention unique to Australia” Professor Jane Fisher, Monash University

2:35-3:00pm “We need to do better – but how?” Vivienne Browne, Orygen Youth Health / Inez Winters, Consumer

11:00-12:40pm Residential care

11:00-11:25pm “Building trust after brokenness: The Oakden Older Persons’ Mental Health Service narrative from failure to reform” Dr Duncan McKellar, Aged Persons Mental Health Services Adelaide

11:25-11:50pm “Enhancing wellbeing of aged care residents through social connection” Associate Professor Briony Dow, National Ageing Research Institute

11:50-12:15pm “Mental health and wellbeing in residential aged care” Eleanor Kennett-Smith, North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network

12:15-12:40pm “Psychotropic prescribing in aged residential care facilities: Drivers and barriers to change” Daniel O’Connor, Victorian Deputy Chief Psychiatrist

Support & postvention

“Exposure to and impact of suicide” Professor Myfanwy Maple, School of Health, University of New England

“We were fighting the system as well as the illness’: Family perceptions of how the mental health system responds to people at risk of suicide and their loved ones” Dr Louise Flynn, Jesuit Social Services - Support After Suicide

“Longitudinal study of bereavement by suicide in Australia: Implications for mental health and postvention services” Dr Kairi Kolves, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University

“It’s about the journey’: Parents’ perspectives on supporting young people who self-harm” Dr Karolina Krysinka, Orygen

Population groups

“Suicide prevention in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities” Tom Brideson

“Rainbows & rejections: The role of family connection in LGBTIQ youth suicide prevention” Jami Jones, Rainbow Health Victoria, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University

“Australian high-risk occupations: Risk and protective factors for mental health & wellbeing & suicidality” Nicole Sadler, Phoenix Australia: Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health

“We need to do better – but how?” Alan Woodward, Alan Woodward Consulting / Matthew Caruana, Consumer.

1:20-3:00pm Developing tailored service responses

1:20-1:45pm “Compassionate responses: Treating aging Holocaust survivors. A program model for working with aging traumatised migrant groups” Renee Symonds, Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home

1:45-2:10pm “Contributing to optimal mental health for older women in Australia” Renea Camilleri, Jean Hailes

2:10-2:35pm “Insights from Ten to Men: The Australian

longitudinal study on male health” Dr Galina Daraganova, Australian Institute of Family Studies

2:35-3:00pm “We need to do better – but how?” Associate Professor Simon Stafrace, Mental Health / Reform Victoria Ian Higgins, Consumer

12:40-1:20pm Lunch & Exhibition 12:40-1:20pm Lunch & Exhibition

3:15-3:45pm Keynote Address – “The Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health: A progress report” Dr Stephen King, Presiding Commissioner for the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health3:45-4:15pm Keynote Address – “The Victorian Royal Commission on Mental Health” Professor Allan Fels AO, Patron of Mental Health Victoria

4:15-5:00pm Service Provider Panel – Wayne Gatt, The Police Association Victoria Robyn Hunter, Mind Australia Dr Harry Nespolon, President, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Associate Professor Simon Stafrace, Mental Health Reform Victoria5:00pm Conference close

Stream 1: Early Years to Youth Stream 2: Adulthood Stream 3: Later Life Stream 4: Suicide Prevention

Morning Session

The benefits of Mental Health Victoria Membership

Visit mhvic.org.au or call (03) 9519 7000 for more details on our Mental Health Victoria membership and our Training & Development services.

Mental Health Victoria can work with your organisation to develop a fully customised stand-alone training and development program.

Or, simply register for one of our accredited short courses, including:

• Mental Health Awareness

• Developing and Facilitating Groups

• Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

• Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

• Peer Work and using your lived experience.

MHV Member Benefits

• Priority access to Mental Health Victoria training

• Discounts on all MHV professional development courses and workshops

• Discounted conference tickets

• Full subscription to MHV’s fortnightly e-newsletters

• Priority for advertisements and promotion through MHV bulletins

• Regular updates on issues affecting the Victorian mental health sector

• Plus much more!

MHV Membership

Mental Health Victoria is the peak body for organisations that work within, or intersect with, the mental health system in Victoria.

We specialise in public policy, workforce development and learning, and services that build individual, organisational and community capacity.

Our members are well informed, contribute to and participate in a range of sector development initiatives, and are able to access high-quality formal and informal professional development activities.

Training & Development Services

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Log in with your username and password, as provided to you by email pre event

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